First the good news: The S&P 500 should climb by about 19 percent or so from yesterday’s close, says mutual fund manager Steve Leuthold in his firm’s “Green Book” monthly research report, released this morning. Now the bad...
In the past, advisors would advise their clients that to make money, it was best to have “time in the market” versus timing the market. But, the brutal bear market of 2008 prompted new research that shows it may be best to avoid big...
After collapsing 94 percent from its peak in June 2008, the Baltic Dry Index, which measures global daily prices for shipping raw materials, is up 427 percent year-to-date (through June 22). It still needs to climb another 189 percent in order to...
The central tenet of Modern Portfolio Theory is that diversification should maximize your portfolio's return at any given level of risk tolerance. Or, as David Swensen, the chief investment officer of Yale's endowment, puts it: Forget about...
So much for those green shoots, say two economic historians, Barry Eichengreen at the University of California at Berkley and Kevin O'Rourke of Trinity College, Dublin. Globally, we are tracking or doing even worse than the Great Depression...
Financials have not yet reclaimed the crown, but they are making a comeback, as measured by their weighting in the S&P 500. While technology is still the biggest sector, accounting for 18.4 percent of the S&P 500 index, the financial sector has...
